When Day Break was taken off ABC’s schedule, I had heard that the rest of the 13 episodes would be available on the website. I checked for a while, never saw them, and gave up. Then, last week, a co-worker told me they had finally been made available, and I finished watching the whole series this weekend.
Has anyone else watched the whole thing yet? I need to talk to someone about the ending!
I haven’t but my husband is OBSESSED with that show. I think I’m logged in on his computer so I’ll send him over here and he can talk to you about the ending 
I watched the entire series. It was nice that they provided closure, but the last episode left me a bit flat. Did like the episodes leading up to it. Now that we’ve got a spoiler free space, can we talk openly about what happened?
I’ll ask a mod to change the thread title to indicate spoilers so we can be open with them, but until then I’ll hide them.
I thought the show did a pretty good job at slowly revealing a very complicated conspiracy and making it pretty understandable. The one thing I didn’t understand was at the very, very end:
They show that guy from the earlier episode, the one Hopper thought was also repeating the day over and over. They kind of left it ambiguous about whether or not he actually was repeating the day or not. But in the final shot of the series, the guy is shaven and smiles knowingly as he watches Hopper across the street. WTF? I guess I don’t get what his role was in the whole thing.
And of course, the reason Hopper kept repeating the day…
was never really explained. Which, I’ll admit, is better than a really lame explanation would have been.
I didn’t expect an explanation as to why the day was repeating. I do believe the crazy guy was repeating the day with Hopper and was also happy when the day ended.I thought the show handled many of the twists well enough. It was usually hard to tell who was a good guy and who was a bad guy. Det. Choi, Andrea, and Rita are the only ones who never seemed to be mixed up in everything against Hopper. Sadly, for the second straight series, our very own jumblejim (SDSAB) bought the farm. This time, however, he earned it, so maybe it wasn’t so sad.
Oh, did Shelton (Baldwin) get away with the attempted frameup? It looked like he was being arrested, but then he walked out of the elevator with his escort apparently dead on the floor. That was kind of left hanging – odd that he was the only bad guy I could think of who got away. Unless, I can’t remember, the lawyer may have gotten away also.
[spoiler]I took it to mean that the guy had already worked out his own repeating day and was following Hopper to let him know that he was proud of him for finishing his out. Or something. I think there was more to his character than we were shown in the 13 episodes. I wonder if there’d been another season would Hopper repeated another day?
My only WTF was what happened to Chad? I thought he’d immediately come after Rita and Hopper after escaping from jail but he just disappeared. I guess he was more concerned with saving his own ass than getting revenge.
I didn’t really have a problem with not finding out how Hopper was repeating. I didn’t expect an answer to that question because it was obvious from the beginning that the time loop was just a way to push the plot forward. It was like a “Choose your own Adventure” book. [/spoiler]
Best show ever canceled, IMHO.
I’ve seen them all and found the whole thing highly enjoyable. The writing was much better than the acting though and Baldwin stole every scene he was in. Then again Moon Goodblood in panties and tussled har climbing out of bed doesn’t need any acting skills. Very easy on the eyes.
I didn’t recognize crazy guy in that final shot. It makes a little more sense that it was a character we’d seen before. Having that information, I can only think that he was in part in on rigging it so that Hopper would try again and again to get it right.
And speaking of trying again and again. More than Groundhog Day, i got a feeling of videogame. You try something, it doesn’t work, you die and have to start that level over and over till you get it right. As you do, certain moves becomes automatic and a task that seemed impossible at the beginning is now on autopilot.
I do think they made a mistake with the broadcast episodes of resetting the clock so we got Day 1, Day 2, Day 3 every week. It made it a bit confusing. They should have numbered all the days (how many were there all in all?).
I can’t see it getting more episodes without losing the edge and momentum, but I’ll be sure to check out the next effort of these writers and producers, assuming they get more work.
Yeah, I would have liked to know how long Hopper was in the loop. At one point (when he meets the crazy arm-biter at the club) I think he says it’s been about three weeks. Then after he solves the murder and clears his name but the day repeats anyway, he takes off to Mexico with Rita for another 17 days. Every other episode seems to be about three days, so I would estimate he was stuck for eight weeks or so. It would have been nice to see “day 47” or whatever, though.
I’m not reading, I’m not reading! But does anyone know if these are coming out on DVD anytime this century? PM please if you know! Thanks!
I’m not reading this!